Sunday, June 8, 2008 - Booking Through Thursday ~ June 5

Have your book-tastes changed over the years? More fiction? Less? Books that are darker and more serious? Lighter and more frivolous? Challenging? Easy? How-to books over novels? Mysteries over Romance? It has been interesting pondering the answers to these questions.  More fiction?  Definitely. Darker and more serious?  No I hope not.  Not darker.  More serious maybe, I tend to like survival books in a historical sense. Lighter and more frivolous?  Not into jokes, light and airy maybe. Challenging?  Probably not.  Easy?  Usually reasonably thick.  How to books over novels?  No, did that ages ago.  I have found my novel niche at least for the moment and am enjoying it. Mysteries over romance?, no but did read a few mysteries. As a child there were Laura Ingalls Wilder books and Raggedy Ann books, I also remember reading Enid Blyton.  Also my favourite was Black Beauty and the Flicker book.  In Black Beauty I could relate to the details about the horses etc.  As a teenager, I remember reading lots of books about WWII.  Then my most embarassing depending who you talk to, books like the one about Azusa Street, Corrie Ten Boom etc.  In the meantime we had moved house, and my reading material reflected this as I then lived near a Christian bookshop. Once I got internet and found ebay I bought again my LIW books and read them over and again.  Then moved on to Janette Oke through reading forums and their suggestions.  As most people know I love Historical Christian Fiction, Tracie Peterson, Maria Wilkes, Wanda Brunstetter.  In the 20 years in between, I am not sure.  I remember when I first had children I read Penelope Leitch.  I think if I did it again I wouldn't follow everyone's suggestions so closely.  Also lots and lots of baby name books.  I remember getting a little booklet about family trees, and that started me off on many hours research and writing letter etc.  I did buy some decorating and gardening books in hardback. Apart from that I was very into cookbooks at that time.  My husband had a collection of old preserving books that I read as well. When I boarded with a family I read their daughter's Mills & Boom, maybe two, I can't really remember much about it.  With another family I read about Kampuchea.

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